Ty'r Banc is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 April 1951. House.
Ty'r Banc
- WRENN ID
- final-merlon-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ty'r Banc, Llan Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 4LS
- OS grid reference
- SH 700 419
- Coordinates
- 52.95875, -3.93609
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ty'r Banc is a symmetrical terrace house built around 1830, consisting of two three-storey, three-bay houses that are designed as a reflected pair. The exterior features an ashlar facade with a continuous shallow-pitched slate roof and plain, rendered end chimneys. A central stack marks the division between the two houses, which is cleverly concealed on the facade by an advanced gabled bay that has blind windows.
Melbourne House, located on the right, retains its original slightly-recessed sash windows, which consist of 12 panes on the ground floor, 9 panes on the first floor, and 6 panes on the upper floor. These windows are adorned with narrow stucco architraves and projecting slate cills. In contrast, Ty'r Banc has modern replacement windows with 15, 12, and 6 panes respectively. There are slate steps leading to a 19th-century four-panelled door at Melbourne House, which features a decorative rectangular fan above. Ty'r Banc has an out-of-character modern glazed door. Both houses have two modern basement windows, except for Ty'r Banc, which retains an original 6-pane window. To the right of Melbourne House, a narrow passage leads to a boarded cellar door located diagonally beneath its right-hand window.
To the left of Ty'r Banc, there is a late 19th-century open stone porch supported by Doric columns. This porch has a plain entablature with the inscription 'Bank' in raised letters and a moulded cornice. Stone steps lead up to a contemporary four-panel door flanked by engaged columns. A coped dwarf step parapet is present on the right side, but missing on the left. Connecting the porch to Meirion House is a high, rough-dressed, snecked rubble wall with a central entrance; a modern boarded door provides access to an alley.
Ty'r Banc has group value with other listed items in Church Square.
Local climate
Ty'r Banc sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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